Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-07-30
Saturday. Jaly 80, 1887.
PRIEsrLY POLITICAL INTRIGUEs.

A New nOrk speclai says: a re-
markable article by the Rev. DR.. Ed
ward McGlynn, entitled "The New
Know Nothingism and the DID, APP
pears in the August number OF the
North American Review issued to-
day. The paper Is a vivid presenta-
tion of the evils and dangers which in
the writer's opinion, threaten Ameri-
can nationality and American institu-
tons from, he alleges, the avowed
purpose Of German clergymen TO pre-
vent the assimilation of their emigrant
couDtrymen aud their offspring to IT, e
American type, on the a hand, and
the political scheming and s~eciarisn
educational tendencies of the Roman
Catholic church on the other. He
says there is a widesnread and persist.
ent effort with scarcely any effort to
conceal IL, to Germsnize the Catholic
church in the northwest. The means
toward the attainment If this il to
multiply German churches, schools
and PARISHES. and To make he multi
plic,tion of The latter an excuse aud u
Justification for the appointment with
the aid of German cardinsls in Rome,
OF German speaking bishops.
lO the second poiut in his article
THE evils and dangers likely To come
to American Institutions through the
alleged political wire pulling and see.
tartan measures in education by the
Catholic church"-Dr, McGlynn say:
There j. now an avowed determine.
tion a+ shown In the last council If
Baltimore Ia establish all over The
country n great SYSTEM of ~par"chisl
schools in opposition To the public
schools, and il is made the mo-,
urgent duty of priests every where.
under threats of expulsion, Ia found
such schools. The hope is not cnn
cealed that when the so.called 'Catho.
lie vote shall become larger, the poll.
ticisn- may be induced Ia appropriate.
through state legislation ur local gov
eminent, all the fund. necessary for
the support of lhese -chool-. This has
already been accomplished 10 POUCH.
keepsie, New Haven and elsewhere.
"Annlher thiIg which was uni card
OF a generation ugo is the appropria.
ton Of valuable public lands and mil
lions Of dollars of public money to the
support of all manner Of sectariau in.
situations under the control of ch arches
and especially of the Roman Catholic
church"
Continuing he says that ''it il not
risking much to lay that II there were
no public schools there would be very
few parochial schools and the Catholic
children for all the churchman would
do for them, would grow up In british
ignorance of letters He cites the
fact that in Italy, France, and other
socalled Catholic countries. i'm spite of
the hostility to the government
schools. the clergy does not establish
parochisl schools, and that the e~cclesi-
astical authorities Of Italy, while will
ing enough 10 impose on the Catholic
people of America 40 heavy a burden,
do not dare to try Ia impose u similar
burden upon their W people. DIR.
McGlynn next takes up the actual aud
dirAnt ntATfHFAnpp I'm nnlitl.s nf
bishops, vicar generals and priests, to
promote the temporal objects Of the
ecclesiastical machine. He illustrates
by citing the action of the late Vicar
General Quinn, OF New York, IN d.
recting priests to use their influence TO
defeat constitutional amendments;
the clerical alliance with the Tweed
ring: the letter of Monsignor Prestan
TO Joseph O'Donohue in the late may
crafty campaign; the secret prohibition
10 himself, not to speak at a political
meeting a%ntagonistic to Tammany and
the abuse Of the confessional.
Finally the Doctor says that "from
the cursory review OF the situation
then and now IL would seem that the
fear Of the things, the alleged evils
and dangers Of which were dreaded.
predicted, and denounced. with 80
much vehemence by the elder Know
Mornings, would find to-day a hun
dred fold greater justification, and yet
we witness the extraordinary spectacle
Of the indifference Of the old political
parties TO the danger and their actual
cooperation In bringing about this
state Of things through legislative
action"
The article ends with n detailed ex.
position of the lines upon which the
remedy must be based. Briefly these
are: Respect for the rights of con.
science; separation Of church and
state; the making of this country a
beacon Of liberty and refuge to the op.